TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY TO CHILDREN IN EVERYDAY LIFE
BY: Barbara Turk Niskač Can you teach anthropology to very young children? Children learn by observation and experience, so anthropology seems like an inevitable and […]
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Anthropological detours in Greece during the refugee crisis
BY: Pinelopi Topali In 2015 the “refugee crisis” reached the island, and an interest in migration swept the university. Students were fascinated by these strangers […]
Teaching Complexity, Uncertainty, and Lies: The case of Homo heidelbergensis
BY: Andrew Holmes, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto In most first-year anthropology courses Homo heidelbergensis is described as a widespread hominin species that lived in […]
Constructive Anthropology
BY: Benjamin Gibbons, MA, Oxford University The flicker of a grimace is the only sign my student will give that we’ve touched a nerve. […]
Writing from the Heart: Teaching Literary Anthropology
Ilina Jakimovska, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Coming from a family of writers, I grew up surrounded by […]
A Prescient Discipline in the Past, a Capacious Discipline for the Future
BY: Durba Chattaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Writing, Ashoka University I’ll wager that as anthropologists many of us have an anthro-crush — that scholar […]
Facing The Frontier: Long-time teaching assistant to first-time (reluctant) instructor
BY: Sarah Ranlett, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto In the course of pursuing a doctorate (as I currently am), teaching has never sparked in me, […]
Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Ioannis Manos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece Social anthropology is a recently established and developed […]
Liminality in the Classroom
Madeleine Mant, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Such is the reality of anthropological education that one must be prepared to […]
Teaching Students to Think like Anthropologists
As 2017 comes to an end I can’t help but reflect on the timely relaunch of the Teaching Anthropology Journal. The majority of students […]